Top-stripping winder for revolving flat cards



(No Model.)

0. A. MASON. TOP STRIPPING WINDBR FOR REVOLVING PLAT CARDS. No. 415,390. Patented Nov. 19, 1 889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. MASON, OF NASHUA, NElV HAMPSHIRE.

TOP-STRIPPING WINDER FOR REVOLVING FLAT CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,390, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed September 17, 1889. Serial No. 324,215. (No model.)

To all 'w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. MASON, of Nashua, in the county of IIillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Top-Stripping lVinder for Revolving Flat Cards, of which the following de scription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

In carding-machines wherein revolving or traveling top-flats are employed the waste is stripped from the flats by the usual vibrating comb, and ordinarily is allowed to fall upon the cover of the doffer and to accumulate there until it becomes necessary to remove it, which occurs four or five times a day. The card thus becomes littered with waste, and oftentimes in the removal of the accumulation more or less falls upon the fleece as it comes from the doifer and seriously impairs the product of the machine.

The object of my invention is to remedy these ditficulties, and this I accomplish by the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a carding-machine having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detailed view.

The main cylinder A, the casing B, the roller 0, the chain of traveling top-flats c c, the brush D, and the vibrating strippingcomb E are and may be all as usual.

Fixed to the casing B are the brackets F, having the arms f and f, and having, also, bearings for the corrugated driving-roll G, which is placed close to the path of the flats and far enough therefrom to prevent danger of contact with the clothing of the flats. Upon the arms j, which are inclined outwardly and upwardly, is supported the winding-roll H, which is made, preferably, asahollow iron roll having pintles 7L and covered with flannel h. This roll is rotated by contact with the driving-roll G, and receives and winds up the fleece of waste stripped from the flats by the comb E. As the waste accumulates, the roll moyes outwardly upon the arms f and always is rotated by contact of itself or of the fleece thereon with the roll G. The roll G has upon one end of its shaft a gear g, which meshes with a pinion g, (see Fig. 3,) secured to a ratchet-wheel 1 which in turn is supported by a stud g and is driven by a pawl 9 carried by the arm 6 of the comb E. The pawl is attached to the arm 6 by means of a sleeve 6', and is slotted as at e and provided with a set-screw 6 whereby the amount of motion imparted to the ratchet-wheel, and consequently the speed of the winding-roll, may be regulated. It is desirable that the roll G be driven from some moving part of the machine rather than by contact with the flats, and the means above described I have found to be convenient.

In the ends of the arms f is supported an idle-roll K, wlrich will press upon the accumulated waste on the winding-roll, and thus protect the brush 1) from contact therewith. About once a day it will be necessary to re move the accumulated waste, and this may be done by lifting the winding-roll from the arms f and stripping the waste from the roll in some convenient place.

By my invention the card is kept neater and cleaner, the waste is gathered in a form convenient to handle, and the danger of injury to the carded fleece by the falling thereon of bits of waste is obviated.

I claim- 1. The combination of a series of top-flats, means for stripping the waste therefrom, a winding-roll to receive the waste, a drivingroll, and means to actuate said driving-roll.

2. The combination of a series of top-flats,

a stripping-comb, a winding-roll to receive the waste, a driving-roll, and means to actuate it.

3. The combination of a series of traveling top-flats, a vibrating stripping-comb having arms to support and actuate it, a windingroll, a driving-roll, and means intermediate one of said comb-arms and said driving-roll to actuate the latter.

4. The combination of a series of traveling top-flats, a stripping-comb, a winding-roll, a driving-roll, means to actuate said last-named roll, a brush for the flats, and an idle-roll and means to support it between the Winding-r011 gearing intermediate said ratchet-Wheel and and said brush. the driving-r011, and a pawl carried by one of 5. The combination of a series of traveling said comb-arms. top-flats, a vibrating stripping-comb having CHARLES A. MASON. 5 arms to support and actuate it, brackets hav- Attest:

ing outwardly and upwardly inclined arms, a R. T. SMITH,

winding-roll, a driving-r011, a ratchet-wheel, E. B. GOULD. 

